Daniel Harvey Hill

Daniel Harvey Hill (12 July 1821-24 September 1889) was a Lieutenant-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Daniel Harvey Hill was born in the York district of South Carolina, United States on 12 July 1821, the grandson of an Irish colonel in the Continental Army during the American Civil War (paternally) and a Scottish immigrant (maternally). Hill graduated from West Point in 1842, 28th out of 56 cadets, and he served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War. In 1849, he became a mathematics professor at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, and he wrote several humorous anti-Yankee questions, including questions asking for students to calculate the rate of retreat for two Indiana volunteers fleeing Saltillo, the number of sufferers from persecution in early Massachusetts, and a question about bad pork sold by a Cincinnati, Ohio salesman. In 1859, he became Superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute of Charlotte, and he commanded a regiment of North Carolina volunteers for the Confederate States of America at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. In the spring of 1862, he became a Major-General in the Army of Northern Virginia, fighting at Seven Pines, the Peninsula, and in Maryland. He was commanding the reserves in Richmond at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and he was sent to Braxton Bragg's reorganized Army of Tennessee in 1863. His corps saw some of the heaviest fighting at Chickamauga, but he was left without a command when the army was reorganized. He later served as a volunteer commander in North Carolina, and he surrendered alongside Joseph E. Johnston on 26 April 1865. He worked as a magazine editor after the war, and he died in 1889 at the age of 68.